Moisés IsraelChairman and founderBefore becoming Chairman of gigas, Moisés Israel was a partner of Atlas Capital, where he led mergers and acquisitions in the hosting and communications sector, among others. He served as CEO of Internet provider Ya.com from 2000 to 2003, which was later acquired by T-Online (Deutsche Telekom). His previous experience is in investment banking for major financial institutuions including Citibank, Santander Investment and Merrill Lynch. He has a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Technion Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.

The Spanish cloud hosting provider is looking to increase its market share in Latin America

Gigas, a Madrid cloud hosting provider, has raised $2.7 million in funding to accelerate its growth plans in Latin America.

The Spanish startup announced the new financing on (2014)March 20. The money is coming from the same investors that had previously injected $6.4 million in Gigas in two rounds of financing in 2011 and 2012, respectively. The investors include Cabiedes & Partners, Bonsai Venture Capital and Caixa Capital Risc.

“By investing in Spanish-first service and by developing a strong local presence in Latin markets, we’ve been able to triple revenues over the past twelve months and secure internationally-known enterprise customers,” Diego Cabezudo, Gigas’ co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. “Our ‘think global, act local’ philosophy is clearly making an impact, and we look forward to cultivating further growth in what we believe are significantly underserved markets.”

Spanish clouds

Founded in 2011 by Cabezudo, Moisés Israel and Jose Antonio Arribas, Gigas is a cloud hosting provider that has grown to having more than 3,000 customers and offices in five countries, including Spain,the U.K., Colombia, Chile and Peru. It also has data centers in Madrid and Miami, Florida. Three of its offices were opened in the last year and in the same time period revenues in those markets have increased by 30% a month. Gigas has also secured some large customers such as Wal-Mart, Iberia, Avianca and the United Nations. The company is focused on Spanish-speaking markets and provides local technical support.

Anyone who is seriously involved in startups and online business in Spain can’t possibly not know who Luis Martin Cabiedes is. But for those of you who aren’t locals, Luis is a renown, serial angel investor, also known for his former position as CEO of Europa Press. He’s previously invested in and/or been involved with MyAlert, Privalia and Trovit.

That said, today’s announcement may not be all that impressive for international counterparts, but for Spain it’s more than noteworthy. Cabiedes & Partners has launched what it’s calling the first angel fund in Spain, with 25 million euros for early-stage investment. That’s a pretty big deal for local startups.

What you hear most from entrepreneurs is that there’s no seed money in Spain. According to Cabiedes, they’re setting out to change that, injecting funds after the friends and family round.

Javier Cebrián, Engineer and MBA-78-IESE, has more than 30 years of succesful experience as entrepreneur and bussines man.He has participated in several M&A, both national and international, operations.His professional track has been:

General manager at Izasa Industria e Investigacion President of Chemicontrol SA President of Varian Iberia SA (Joint Venture with Varian Ass Palo Alto, CA) President and founder of Bonsai entrerprise holding

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Year 1999: our beginningBonsai Venture Capital came into being as a result of the entrepreneurial spirit of Javier Cebrian Sagarriga and as a diversification of the family office investments in Real Estate and Stock markets.Our model integrates ownership and management. Managers own more than 60% of the capital stake

First Online InvestmentsMigration from offline content to online space became obvious and we wanted to invest in this transition. Since then we have focused on accelerating this change in the Spanish market, starting with online classifieds

PresentWe invest in domestic internet companies with great mobile focus and global ambition

Entlebuch District was one of the five Ämtern, or districts, of the German-speaking Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Its capital is the village of Schüpfheim. In 2013 the name was changed from Amt Entlebuch to Wahlkreis Entlebuch as part of a reorganization of the Canton. A sixth Wahlkreis was created, but in Entlebuch everything else remained essentially unchanged.

Swiss peasant war of 1653<br />The Swiss peasant war of 1653 was a popular revolt in the Old Swiss Confederacy at the time of the Ancien Régime. A devaluation of Bernese money caused a tax revolt that spread from the Entlebuch valley in the Canton of Lucerne to the Emmental valley in the Canton of Berne and then to the cantons of Solothurn and Basel and also to the Aargau.

Since 2003 an alpine cattle descent has been celebrated in the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch. Authentic customs and traditions are enthusiastically celebrated and lived on this festive occasion, attracting a large audience.

Seven alpine families walk in September in beautiful costumes with 200 cows and oxen from the authentic alpine huts around Sörenberg down to Schüpfheim – accompanied by colorful folkloric groups. The magnificent parade through the village is the climax of the Entlebuch alpine cattle descent, which is much more than a traditional day of celebration for alpine villagers and dairyfarmers.

The largest annual recurring event of the region gives guests from near and far the unique opportunity to experience live folk tradition: the flag is swung with gusto, the alpine horn is blown and there is yodeling. At the large market the best produce of the region can be bought – ranging from alpine cheese to sausage to jam. And in the local pubs, which have been lovingly decorated by local associations, guests eat and drink heartily.

Gigas’ data centers are located in Madrid and Miami. Gigas’ Madrid data center is housed in the Interxion collocation facility, which offers capacity for up to 80,000 servers, access to more than 50 carriers and ISPs, dual-entry fiber and SLA-based cross connects in a highly secure, climate-controlled environment. It holds Tier III classification. Interxion is a multinational company with 61,000 m2 of technical space distributed across 34 facilities in 11 European countries. Its 18 neutral points allow for connection to 400 different carriers.

Gigas’ Miami installation is housed in Verizon Terremark’s flagship facility, the “NAP of the Americas,” one of the most significant telecommunications projects in the world. The hub is the first purpose-built, carrier-neutral Network Access Point and is the only facility of its kind specifically designed to link Latin America with the rest of the world, facilitating about 90% of all Internet traffic going in and out of the region. It has 70,000m2 of technical space and is one of the largest data centres in the world. It holds Tier IV classification, the highest possible industry certification.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigas_%28company%29

---http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterxionThe concept behind Interxion was born out of an idea by Bart van den Dries who proposed in 1996 interconnecting the networks of all the new telecoms companies in the Netherlands. In March 1998 construction on the company’s first data centre began in Amsterdam. The company operated the first virtual telecommunications marketplace in Europe enabling customers to meet and create new business. In 1999 Interxion built a data centre in Frankfurt to house the DE-CIX Internet exchange. From this point the company saw rapid growth across Europe and by 2002 Interxion had opened offices and data centres in Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark and Austria, operating in total 20 data centres,,, In January 2011 Interxion successfully filed for IPO and the company’s shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange,,, ,,,In 2012 Interxion launched their seventh data centre in Paris and ,,,

Interxion AMS5 Tupolevlaan 101 Schiphol Rijk

Interxion is a European provider of cloud and carrier-neutral data centre colocation services. Founded in 1998, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 28, 2011. Interxion is headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands, and operates over 30 data centres located in major metropolitan areas across 11 European countries... including

the InterXion Data Centre of Glattbrugg,near Zurich... The customers of InterXion includes Swiss banks who have also relocated parts of their infrastructure here. The data centre (and therefore also your and our data) is protected by a multilevel security system...

In the InterXion Data Centre a giant air conditioner plant provides the optimum operating temperature and humidity for our servers. All the rooms of the data centre are also hermetically sealed and include a sensitive fire alarm system. The extinguishing medium is INERGEN gas, which consists of natural components of air and is therefore harmless to both humans and the technology.

The facility will be built in six phases, with the first four providing about 4,600 sq m of equipped space and 8.2MW of critical power. The first four phases are expected to open on the following schedule:

Opfikon is the name of a municipality in the Swiss canton of Zürich, located in the district of Bülach.

Opfikon is situated right to the northeast of the city of Zurich in the Glatt Valley, near Zurich Airport, and thus lies within the greater Zürich area. As it belongs to the region known as the Zurichois Lowlands (Zürcher Unterland), the landscape is rather flat. The lowest point lies 420.4 m above sea level at the border to the neighboring commune of Rümlang, the highest one in the Hard forest, 481 m above sea level. 37% of the municipal territory is covered by settlement area, 17% by wood, 27% by farming ground, 17.6% by transport infrastructures and 1.2% by waters.The present municipality traces back to two settlements, one of which is Opfikon itself, situated right from the river Glatt, whereas on the other side of it lies Oberhusen. Glattbrugg, as its name (‚bridge over the Glatt’) suggests, originally was not a settlement, but a passage of some importance. However, the name was later also used for a smithy and a mill that were built near the bridge at the left-hand riverbank, and round which eventually developed another settlement...

Since the beginning of January, local energy provider Energie Opfikon AG (www.energieopfikon.ch) has supplied the data center with its Aquastrom hydroelectricity product, which uses naturally flowing water instead of storage plants.

The renewable energy source is also backed up by Energie Opfikon AG’s proof of origin and is checked on a regular basis by independent auditors.

Since partnering with the company, Interxion has reduced its carbon dioxide emissions from 3,000 tonnes to 170 tonnes per year.

The Alps form part of a Cenozoic orogenic belt of mountain chains, called the Alpide belt, that stretches through southern Europe and Asia from the Atlantic all the way to the Himalayas. This belt of mountain chains was formed during the Alpine orogeny. A gap in these mountain chains in central Europe separates the Alps from the Carpathians to the east. Orogeny took place continuously and tectonic subsidence has produced the gaps in between.

The Alps arose as a result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates, in which the Alpine Tethys, which was formerly in between these continents, disappeared. Enormous stress was exerted on sediments of the Alpine Tethys basin and its Mesozoic and early Cenozoic strata were pushed against the stable Eurasian landmass by the northward-moving African landmass. Most of this occurred during the Oligocene and Miocene epochs. The pressure formed great recumbent folds, or nappes, that rose out of what had become the Alpine Tethys and pushed northward, often breaking and sliding one over the other to form gigantic thrust faults. Crystalline basement rocks, which are exposed in the higher central regions, are the rocks forming Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and high peaks in the Pennine Alps and Hohe Tauern

The formation of the Mediterranean Sea is a more recent development and does not mark the northern extent of terranes originating within the African plate.,,,The formation of the Alpine landscape seen today is a recent development – only some two million years old. Since then, five known ice ages have done much to remodel the region. The tremendous glaciers that flowed out of the mountain valleys repeatedly covered all of the Swiss plain and shoved the topsoil into the low rolling hills seen today. They scooped out the lakes and rounded off the limestone hills along the northern border.

The last great glacier advance in the Alps ended some 10,000 years ago, leaving the large lake now known as Lake Neuchatel. The ice in this region reached some 1,000 m in depth and flowed out of the region behind Lake Geneva some 100 km to the South. Today large granite boulders are found scattered in the forests in the region. These were carried and pushed by the glaciers that filled this part of the western plain for some 80,000 years during the last ice age. From their composition it has been possible to determine the precise area from which they began their journey. As the last ice age ended, it is believed that the climate changed so rapidly that the glaciers retreated back into the mountains in only some 200 to 300 years time.

Not to be confused with the similarly named Alp-luachra, the alp is sometimes likened to a vampire, but its behavior is more akin to that of the incubus. It is distinct from both of these creatures in that it wears a magic hat called a Tarnkappe, from which it draws its powers. The word "alp" is a variation on the word "elf". It is also known by the following names: trud, mar, mart, mahr, schrat, and walrider. Many variations of the creature exist in surrounding European areas, such as the Druden and Schratteli, or Old Hag in English-speaking countriesAn alp is typically male, while the mara and mart appear to be more feminine versions of the same creature. Its victims are often females, whom it attacks during the night, controlling their dreams and creating horrible nightmares (hence the German word Alptraum ["elf dream"], meaning a nightmare). An alp attack is called an Alpdruck, or often Alpdrücke, which means "elf pressure". Alpdruck is when an alp sits astride a sleeper's chest and becomes heavier until the crushing weight awakens the terrified and breathless dreamer. The victim awakes unable to move under the alp's weight. This may have been an early explanation for sleep apnea and sleep paralysis, as well as night terrors.,,,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alp_%28folklore%29

There is no volcanicity because they are not close enough to a plate boundary. The volcanoes associated with the boundary between the African and Eurasian plates are situated in Italy, Greece and Turkey, for example Vesuvius, Strombolli and Etna.

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The history of the Alps started some 500 million years ago. In the then existing Tethyan Sea, the materials the Alps are made of, such as marble, limestone and granite, developed during many millions of years. The actual mountain-building started a 100 million years ago when the African tectonic plate started to move towards and causing pressure on the more stable tectonic plates of Europe and Asia. Under the influence of this gigantic pressure the bottom of the sea rose to form new mountains. On a smaller scale glacial periods and glaciers caused the shaping of the mountains by their eroding influence.

The growth process is still going on. On a geological timescale the Alps are a young mountain range, still developing: the Alps gain about one millimetre (0.04 ") in height every year. One can recognize a young mountain range by its high and roughly shaped tops. ,,,http://www.myswissalps.com/aboutswitzerland/nature/geography

General overview of the path taken in Austria. Chosen because it would allow the lowest pass through Alps, it allowed factually to arrive to Vienna in an almost direct line without having to get bothered by excessive climbing. Contrary to all expectations we would just have to chose the right hills in order to avoid excessive tiredness.

Duration of path in Austria: 10.08 – 3.09 (three weeks with 10 days stop in Vienna)